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Old 05-06-2020, 04:47 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
But please don't waste other people's time by complaining that a program is attempting to follow the standard to allow generating an ebook that will work on the majority of devices, however much you feel that your preferred image format should be supported.
I have no 'favorite format': simply, editing my own cover, maps and illustrations, I have found, as many others, that each format is better for some kind of images. And technical works are even more exacting and clamour strongly for some unusual and little know formats...

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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
...Using other formats can and does cause issues on quite a few ereaders and will get your ebook bounced from Amazon, Smashwords, etc. One author I did some work for insisted on using webp images and got rejected on multiple sites for that reason...
I would add 'now'--not so long ago I was hearing the same about svg, wasn't I?

Personally, instead of trying to limit everybody to the intersection of what 'the most usual' would support, I would aim at using the better available and expect the 'the most usual' to update... they would, someday...?
Anyway, as lifelong reader, I would rather not voice my very personal opinion of editors and their policies--which I should thank instead for forcing me to learn english.
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